Hi all. Been a while. I see all is well here as usual. :happy:
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Elanor1 wrote...
I'm wondering... can Shep romance Liara in ME3 if he haven't romance her in ME1?
Yes but it's bland, and feels sort of tacked on.Not worth it IMO.
I actually agree. I've played enough variations and the interaction with squadies and LIs felt much more shallow than it did in the previous games. It seems autodialoge as replaced wheel conversations and for me removes some of the 'personal' time spent with NPCs. 1 or 2 DW coversations cannot be replaced with non-interactive conversation. It just does not feel the same at all. How can you go from 3-4 coversations in ME to 6+ in ME2 and then down to 2 limited DW convos + London (for team mates) in ME3 and it not be considered a reduction in the NPC RPG element.
The only time it does not feel as bad is when you have the VS or Liara as an LI and stayed failthful. Even then, it adds only 1 more interactive conversation.
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I got another line from Aethyta regarding the romance. 'I see the way you too look at earch other. I'm surprised your panties haven't caught fire.'
Liara's response is the same; taudry... I think it happens with a romance/relationship that is never 'concumated'.
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As for Aethyta and Benezia. This is really subjective, but it also requires remembering the past conversations with Aethyta, Benezia's circumstances, The prothian beacon, the nature of the prothean's interference with Asari culture, etc. If you take all this into consideration, it would explain why the relationship would not work. I'll try to keep it factual and brief.
Prothians pushed Asari to lead the next cycle. To take charge and probably hinted at them dominating other species. This could have been interpreted as forming alliances given Asari were primitive at the time.
It seems the Asari didn't get much more than technological data out of the beacon and were never able to access Vendetta. It would have been only writings from the lore around Athame that would give them any clues as to what was coming.
Benezia's path was that of forming alliances with the other races. Working with them in a cooperative manner.
Aethyta, half Krogan, was influences by the Krogan 'go it alone' mentality and perhaps other influences we could not possibly know about.
Benezia left before Liara was born, but evidently they had a little contact when Liara was a child. Hence the Little Wing revelation.
Because Aethyta and Benezia had polarizing ideas of how the Asari should move forward, and Benezia has; we would assume, some amount of inside information regarding the Protheans, it would seem reasonable for the two to part ways. Benezia wasn't just a Matriarch, she was more or less of covert agent for one or more of the Asari governments. Remember; their political system is fractured, much like how things are run on present day earth.
It makes sense Benezia would leave, and although the reasons were political, they were not as cut and dry as Aethyta would have Liara believe... as we find out later. Question is now; how much did Aethyta actually know by the time she shows up on the Citadel?
Modifié par Turbo_J, 09 avril 2012 - 05:46 .